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GOALI helps librarians and researchers “to know our rights and respect the rights of others”
By Edit Horváth, User and Outreach Librarian, International Labour Organization Exactly one year ago, we launched GOALI to provide developing countries with access to academic legal content and training. For the first anniversary, we asked our users why legal information
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Promoting digital access to research in least developed countries
1,400 librarians, researchers and students from 10 countries have learnt how to access and search digital scientific and academic information provided by Research4Life partners in the framework of a new activity of the UN’s Technology Bank for Least Developed Countries.
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The most asked questions during the December AGORA Alumni Webinars
On 3, 4 and 5 December, the AGORA Team at FAO organised a series of webinars for the 2018 Alumni of the online course “Fundamentals of Information Literacy and Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture – AGORA”. The webinar aimed at sharing experiences on the use of the AGORA platform after the course and help solve any problems or reply to any questions the users might have.
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Interview with Kimberly Parker, Research4Life/Hinari Programme Manager
Kimberly Parker, Hinari programme manager, answers some questions about the Research4Life Access to Health programme  width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"> The interview was held during the 65th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean, hosted by the Government
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Call for Research4Life user experiences from the global South
If your institution is located in one of the Research4Life eligible countries and has already joined Research4Life‘s international network, you can access and fully explore resources of interest shared by tens of thousands of leading journals and e-books in the
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Research4Life at OpenCon 2018 satellite event
At the next OpenCon satellite event in New York City, Research4Life will give a presentation about its programmes, including how to access information resources using Hinari, AGORA and GOALI. The Conference theme is “Access for all? Equity of access to information,
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Nuevo programa de Research4Life GOALI: Acceso global en línea a información jurídica
GOALI – Acceso global en línea a información jurídica es el nuevo programa de Research4Life que permite acceder de manera gratuita o por un monto reducido a trabajos de investigación y actividades de formación en el campo jurídico desde los
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A modern medical library in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Research4Life helps ICDDRB in Bangladesh to be equipped with the most advanced tools and information technology for collecting, processing, and storing information.
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Learn what is and how you can access the new Research4Life programme – GOALI
On March 6. 2018, a new Research4Life programme called GOALI (Global Online Access to Legal Information) was launched in Geneva. This initiative lead by the ILO, the Cornell University Law Library, the Yale Lillian Goldman Law Library and Brill Nijhoff
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Highlights from the latest OARE Workshop in Nairobi
A 2.5-day OARE workshop was hosted at the United Nations Offices in Nairobi, Kenya on the past November 2017. Twenty one librarians and researchers selected from various institutions around the country participated in this workshop. This was the first workshop
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Advocacy for Information Literacy and Access to Academic Resources in Uganda
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Mary Acanit is an Assistant Librarian at Kyambogo University Library Services in Kampala, Uganda. She is currently finishing her master’s degree in information science at Makerere University. She is one of two winners of the Research4Life/INASP Advocacy Competition Mary Acanit
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Publisher of the Month: The Electrochemical Society (ECS)
ECS’s partnership with Research4Life currently provides institutions in over 120 countries around the world free accessibility to all of the content available in the ECS Digital Library, comprising a total of over 132,000 articles and abstracts. Our highlighted publisher this
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